Cow Bell Question

[MattS]

I pick up a small cow bell at a yard sale. They guy thought it was from Stanford and that the "C" on it was for Cardinals. However by the look of it I think the "C" looks more like a Cornell "C".  Does anyone know if CU sold or gave away cow bell at sometime in the past?

Link to picture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bHR7Fr2KURTtqPqGl8KexIqVGx8nJlTm/view?usp=drivesdk

[Trotsky]

Cardinal.  No s.

They suck, but they're grammatically correct.

[stereax]

Looks very much like this one.

[stereax]

Looks very much like this one.

Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.

[stereax]

Looks very much like this one.

Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.

Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.

[stereax]

Looks very much like this one.

Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.

Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.

Could've been something they sold years back too. Like this one. I would wager it wasn't a giveaway item at a game because. uh. lol the noise.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Looks very much like this one.

Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.

Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.

Cardinal, as in color.  Not bird or religious figure

[ursusminor]

Looks very much like this one.

Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.

Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.

Could've been something they sold years back too. Like this one. I would wager it wasn't a giveaway item at a game because. uh. lol the noise.

The NCAA has a rule against giving out noisemakers after the RPI Big Red Freakout! game against Brown in 1987.

[Iceberg]

The NCAA has a rule against giving out noisemakers after the RPI Big Red Freakout! game against Brown in 1987.

What happened?

[Trotsky]

Looks very much like this one.

Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.

Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.

Cardinal, as in color.  Not bird or religious figure

As distinct from Ordinal.

[ursusminor]

The NCAA has a rule against giving out noisemakers after the RPI Big Red Freakout! game against Brown in 1987.

What happened?

https://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-sports/article/A-brief-history-of-RPI-hockey-s-Big-Red-Freakout-6804980.php

Many of the giveaways, combined with a well-primed student body, have resulted in frenetic noise levels designed to distract and disrupt the opposition. A lively pep band that sometimes grows to near-orchestral size on Freakout nights adds to the deafening decibel levels.

The scenario finally became so intimidating that the NCAA stepped in after some 3,500 stadium horns helped RPI blow Brown off the ice in 1987. The governing body put a restriction on the type of gift that could be given to fans at hockey games, in effect banning horns and similar noisemakers from Houston Field House and other college rinks.

Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24PhCr8yUVA at about 2:30.

Yearly handouts https://sports-chronicles.com/rpih/pages/special_games

Poor performance on the ice and lack of student interest has done more to decrease the noise level than the NCAA did. Currently, I am hoping that Eric Lang will be able to reverse the trend. He is cleaning house with at the moment only eight returnees and the same amount coming from the transfer portal.

[ugarte]

I pick up a small cow bell at a yard sale. They guy thought it was from Stanford and that the "C" on it was for Cardinals. However by the look of it I think the "C" looks more like a Cornell "C".  Does anyone know if CU sold or gave away cow bell at sometime in the past?

Link to picture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bHR7Fr2KURTtqPqGl8KexIqVGx8nJlTm/view?usp=drivesdk

looks very much to be a cornell c but i'm not aware of any noisemaker giveaway. maybe someone at the bookstore who has been there for a while would know?

[French Rage]

I mean the block C has never been a thing for Stanford so why in the hell would he think that?

[Chris '03]

Looks very much like this one.

Checking that HitPromo site shows me this. So you can easily buy one and customize it. Or, y'know, 100.

Poking around the seller's profile for a minute. They have a lot of college merch, none necessarily Cornell. However, the Stanford Cardinal (why not Cardinals??) don't seem to have ever used a C logo. My honest guess is someone got these made for some sorta Cornell alum meet-up or something of the like.

Could've been something they sold years back too. Like this one. I would wager it wasn't a giveaway item at a game because. uh. lol the noise.

The NCAA has a rule against giving out noisemakers after the RPI Big Red Freakout! game against Brown in 1987.

Didn't some team hand out single thunder sticks at some point? Since you need two for it to be a noise maker...

[Dafatone]

It's not quite a standard Cornell C. The interior of the Cornell C has right angles, and the cowbell C has 45 degree turns around the interior.